The Blue Knight

The Blue Knight - Hardcover

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The Blue Knight - Hardcover

The Blue Knight - Hardcover

by Joseph Wambaugh
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by Joseph Wambaugh (Author)

Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his best--a tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life.

Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in armor--they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips, and the hard respect a man can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a good woman waiting for him, a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and a tragedy looming, Bumper Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare him: the demons that he's been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...
Number of Pages: 348
Dimensions: 1.05 x 9.36 x 6.24 IN
Publication Date: December 06, 2001
ISBN9780316921466
Author Joseph Wambaugh
PublisherLittle Brown and Company
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages348
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife.

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